The surface of Mars is better mapped than is the bottom of the world’s oceans...

One contrast drawn among among the candidates came in response to a question about offshore wind turbines.

Two-thirds of the planet’s surface is covered by oceans, and half of that is outside the jurisdiction of national governments. So much of those high seas have yet to be explored...

Jason and Josh Joyce, cousins and life-long island residents, have been two of the first to venture into oyster farming. Their families have been on Swan’s Island for eight generations...

As it turns out, islanders are committed to cutting energy costs and consumption, as became apparent...

With 39 percentof the U.S.population living along the shore, it’s important to work with the environment…

How blue is Casco Bay?

The Library of America recruited the help of editor Sandra Steingraber in recently publishing a new retrospective on marine biologist Rachel Carson and her seminal role in jump-starting environmentalism...

The trees set heavily, and we thinned relentlessly, rubbing and plucking hundreds of pea and olive-sized peaches…